Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 32:43
And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It [is] desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
43. (Jer32:15).
whereof ye say, It isdesolate (Jer 33:10).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And fields shall be bought in this land,…. After the return from the Babylonish captivity, which this respects; and of which the prophet’s purchasing a field of his uncle’s son was a pledge and token; in doing which, as a right thing, he is confirmed; as well as the cavils and objections of the Jews removed, who thought the destruction of the city, and such a practice, irreconcilable; and, moreover, this is mentioned as a pledge, earnest, and confirmation of the fulfilment of the above spiritual promises in Gospel times; for the people being returned at the end of the seventy years’ captivity, and purchasing fields and vineyards, as was predicted, it might be strongly concluded, that since those temporal blessings promised were made good, spiritual ones would certainly be fulfilled; though some understand these words, in a spiritual sense, of the field of the church; for it is in the singular number, “a field shall be bought” o; yea, “that field”, emphatically, which was bought by the blood of Christ, and first planted in the land of Judea, as in Jer 32:41;
whereof ye say, [it is] desolate without man or beast; so wasted and destroyed by the enemy, that neither man nor beast are left, but both carried off by him; and therefore no hope of what is above promised:
it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans; they are become the possessors of it, and therefore it is all over with us as to buying and possessing fields and vineyards; but notwithstanding this diffidence and despair in the present view of things, it follows:
o “et [vel] tum emetur ager”, Cocceius, Schmidt; “tum comparabitur ager”, Junius & Tremellius.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
He confirms the prediction respecting the return of the people, and makes application of the vision which had been presented to the Prophet; for he had been commanded, as we have seen, to buy a field in the land of Benjamin. God now then annects that sign to the prophecy; for the use of signs is to secure faith to doctrine, which yet deserves of itself to be believed, and is fully authentic, and of itself worthy of belief; it is however conceded to our infirmity, that signs are given us, in order that the promises may be more fixed and ratified in our hearts.
This order God now follows, and says, Yet bought shall a field be in this land The verb, קנה kone, means to acquire or to buy and to possess; but as in the next verse he says, Buy shall they with money a field, the meaning ought not to be changed. Bought then shall be a field (the singular for the plural) in this land, of which ye say, (84) Deserted it is by man and beast The chief men did not say this, as we have elsewhere shewn; nay, when Jeremiah declared this to them, he was in treated and cruelly dealt with by them; for it was a thing difficult to be believed that the land, which was as it were the sacred habitation of God, should be laid waste by the Chaldeans. God had indeed called it his rest, and it had been given as a heritage to the children of Abraham. The Jews, then, did not originate this saying; nay, it was God himself. But this question has been solved elsewhere; they did not indeed speak of the desolation of the land in the same sense or manner as God did; for when the Prophets threatened them with the desolation of the land, they always added the hope of deliverance and of a return; but they, when that calamity happened to them, cast aside every hope, and gave themselves up wholly to despair. And it is a usual thing with the ungodly to ridicule all God’s threatenings as long as he spares them or defers their punishment; but when God makes it known that he speaks in earnest, then they are swallowed up with despair, and conclude that nothing remains for them.
This, then, is what Jeremiah upbraids his own nation with, that is, that they cast off from themselves every hope, while yet God had fixed for them the term of seventy years. While God then was stretching forth his hand to them, they chose rather thus to sink in the abyss of despair, so that nothing could alleviate their minds. This ingratitude the Prophet justly condemns; for they considered their land as devoted to perpetual ruin, when yet its restoration had been promised to them; as though he had said, “The mercy of God and his faithfulness will surpass all your wickedness; but ye, as far as you can, extinguish his promises, abolish his grace, and give no place to his promises: nevertheless he will complete what he has promised; for though the land is falsely deemed by you to be given up for ever to destruction, yet the Lord will cause it to be inhabited by its own legitimate heirs, even the children of Abraham.” This is the reason why he intimates that the Jews had regarded the land as given up to perpetual desolation.
(84) This is not the literal rendering of the Hebrew, but the following, —
Which, ye say, is desolate, without man or beast, Given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Had “which” been governed by “say,” there would have been a pronoun after it with a preposition prefixed. The Sept., the Syr., and Arab. have retained the right construction, though the Vulg. has not. “Without,” i.e., with not, or not with, is literally the Hebrew, מאין — Ed.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(43, 44) And fields shall be bought in this land . . .The significance of the whole transaction of the purchase of the field in Anathoth is again solemnly confirmed. Men were desponding, as though the land were to belong to the Chaldans for ever. They are told that the very region which was now covered with their encampments should once again be possessed freely by its own people. In the mountains, the valleys, and the south, or negeb district, stretching towards the country of the Philistines, we have, as before in Jer. 17:26, the familiar division of the land of Judah, which had been transmitted from what has well been called the Domesday Book of Israel (Jos. 15:21; Jos. 15:33; Jos. 15:48).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
43. Fields shall be bought Literally, the field. The term is used generically, and implies a prosperity that brings the country at large into use. Keil, however, understands the article here to look back to the field of Hananeel.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Jer 32:43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, [It is] desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Ver. 43. And fields shall be bought. ] For an assurance whereof I have caused thee to buy this field now.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
man. Hebrew. ‘adam. App-14.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Jer 32:36, Eze 37:11-14
Reciprocal: Jer 32:15 – Houses Jer 33:12 – without Lam 3:11 – he hath made Eze 14:13 – and will cut Eze 29:8 – cut Eze 36:33 – wastes Eze 38:12 – the desolate Zec 1:17 – My cities Joh 13:7 – What
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 32:43. A demonstration of the prediction that fields shall be bought was enacted by Jeremiah in verses 6-14. By that transaction the prophet showed his confidence in the predictions which the Lord inspired him to make.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
The land that then lay desolate would again see the buying and selling of property, as Jeremiah had just done. This would be true of the whole land that was then under siege-all of Judah. Yahweh would restore the fortunes of His people.